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Navigation spiritualized: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desired reformation from the horrible and detestable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel.Navigation spiritualiz'd: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desir'd reformation from the horrible and destable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommmended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel.
London: printed for M. Fabian, 1698
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A New Compass for Sea-Men: OR, Navigation Spiritualiz'd. › Chapter 29 › APPLICATION.
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APPLICATION.
Thus are the Judgments of God, and the Ways of his Providence, profound and unsearchable, Psal. 36. 16. The Righteous is like the great Mountains, and thy Judgments are a great Deep: (i. e.) his Providences are secret, obscure, and unfathomable; but even then, and in those Providences, his Righteousness stands up like the great Mountains, visible and apparent to every eye. Though the Saints cannot see the one, yet they can clearly discern the other, Jer. 12. 1. Jeremiah was at a stand; so was Job in the like case, Job 12. 7. So was Asaph, Psal. 73.▪ and Habakkuk, Chap. 1. 3. These Wheels of Providence are dreadful for their height, Ezek. 1. 18. There be deep Mysteries of Providence, as well as of Faith. It may be said of some of them, as of Paul's Epistles, That they are hard to be understood. Darkness and Clouds are round about the Throne of God: No man can say what will be the particular issue and event of some of his dispensations. Luther seemed to hear God say to him, when he was importunate to know his mind in some particular Providence, Deus sum non sequax: I am a God not to be traced. Some Providences, like Hebrew Letters, must be read backward, Psal. 92. 7. Some Providences pose Men of the greatest parts and graces. His way is in the Sea, his paths in the great Waters, and his foot-steps are not known,